Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

Reports submitted to the Apache Board

March 2012

Code Block

Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
=========
The Karaf community continues to provide help to others Apache
projects (Whirr, Archiva, etc) in order to increase the Karaf 
adoption.

Some indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: around 14,000 distribution downloads
- User mailing list: 718 messages
- Dev mailing list: 706 messages
- Commits: 742

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.2.5
* Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.3

We made progresses on the stabilization of the Karaf 3.0 next release.
A karaf-3.0.x branch will be cut off soon in order to prepare a first RC.

A new Karaf sub-project has been created: EIK (Eclipse Integration for
Karaf), which allows to run Karaf directly into the Eclipse IDE.

Web Site
=======
A new version of the website has been deployed to give more visibility to
the Karaf sub-projects.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: ok
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far. 

December 2011

Code Block
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
=========
Guillaume Nodet and Jean-Baptiste Onofré were presents at
the ApacheCon.
Two talks were related to Karaf.

Several projects are interested to use Karaf.

The Karaf community starts to help others projects to be OSGi
compliant (work started on Apache Archiva and Apache Whirr).

Development
============
A new release has been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.2.4

We are now focusing on Karaf 3.0 release (lot of fixes, cleanups
and enhancements in progress).

We also included a new testing framework based on Pax Exam (part
of the Karaf tooling).

The resources for the sub-projects will be created soon (website, etc).

Web Site
========
We published a new web site to fix some typo mistakes and update the
online documentation.
The site will be updated soon to announce and give visibility
to the new sub-projects.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by Karaf" logo
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far. 

...